Re: Upgrade Subversion 1.13 to 1.14 LTS ( Ubuntu 20.04.5)

On Thu, Oct 26, 2023 at 9:59 AM Nathan Hartman <[email protected]> wrote:
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>> Hello Users Community,
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>> Hope you are doing great.
>> I have installed Apache Subversion 1.13 in Ubuntu 20.04.5 using apt-get (
>>  From Ubuntu package ) and also installed libapache2-mod-svn.
>> I do not have any plan to upgrade the OS to Ubuntu 22.04. I am looking if I
>> use apt-get upgrade subversion will automatically upgrade Subversion to
>> 1.14 and also upgrade the library.
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> Not by default (however see below): Generally, once a Ubuntu release line like 20.04.x is made, software in the Ubuntu package repositories will get only bug fixes and security fixes, not new features. This means that the Subversion packages will remain at 1.13.x for Ubuntu 20.04.x when using the default package repositories.
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> However, it is likely that Ubuntu's backports repositories have the newer Subversion 1.14.x releases. The backports repositories are the preferred way to install newer releases of software packages on older releases of Ubuntu.

I would add that I do not believe there are compelling reasons to
upgrade from 1.13 to 1.14 if your distro hasn't. I would recommend
sticking with what your distro is providing unless there is some
highly compelling reason to install your own package. This is
especially true on a server.

If you really have a need for 1.14, I would upgrade your entire distro
to a version that provides it.

Mark